Help with My English test, Please.
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So, huh, first post here. Please be gentle :) Not sure if this is the right place/allowed to post this.
So I've got some English homework that I need to finish, and I'm sorta stuck at these 2 tasks:
Task 1:
The following story is written in passive voice. Rewrite the sentences into active voice, where possible.
Example:
He is being deceived by his own friends.
His own friends are deceiving him.
STORY OF THE HAMBURGER
The hamburger is the most eaten food in the whole world. The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American called Louis Lassen. Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hambourg in Germany.
Hamburgers became a favourite meal in America in the early part of the twentieth century. Their popularity grew even more after the second world war, when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food to family meals. In 1948 two brothers Dick and Mac Donald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
Since then over 25,000 Mcdonald's restaurants have been opened worldwide and now 35 million MacDonald's hamburgers are eaten every day in 115 countries from India to the Artic Circle.
Please rewrite full sentences.
Sounds pretty simple, right? But I can't seem to wrap my head around the whole active and passive voices. I'll post the second task if I ever get my head around this, so if you have any advice or tips for me, please share.
So I've got some English homework that I need to finish, and I'm sorta stuck at these 2 tasks:
Task 1:
The following story is written in passive voice. Rewrite the sentences into active voice, where possible.
Example:
He is being deceived by his own friends.
His own friends are deceiving him.
STORY OF THE HAMBURGER
The hamburger is the most eaten food in the whole world. The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American called Louis Lassen. Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hambourg in Germany.
Hamburgers became a favourite meal in America in the early part of the twentieth century. Their popularity grew even more after the second world war, when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food to family meals. In 1948 two brothers Dick and Mac Donald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
Since then over 25,000 Mcdonald's restaurants have been opened worldwide and now 35 million MacDonald's hamburgers are eaten every day in 115 countries from India to the Artic Circle.
Please rewrite full sentences.
Sounds pretty simple, right? But I can't seem to wrap my head around the whole active and passive voices. I'll post the second task if I ever get my head around this, so if you have any advice or tips for me, please share.
Passive voice is when the verb is preceded by have/is forms of verbs and make the actors of the sentence seem secondary. You need to take those sentences and put the actors into the subject position of the sentence.
The example sentence is weak because the "he" in the subject position isn't doing the acting. Rather, the person/thing doing the action is "his own friends." To fix the sentence and make it active, "his own friends" is put into the subject position.
Another way to think of this is the Strunk and White principle that good English is concise. What sounds better, "is being deceived" or "are deceiving"?
The example sentence is weak because the "he" in the subject position isn't doing the acting. Rather, the person/thing doing the action is "his own friends." To fix the sentence and make it active, "his own friends" is put into the subject position.
Another way to think of this is the Strunk and White principle that good English is concise. What sounds better, "is being deceived" or "are deceiving"?
Ok... I'm at work so forgive me if this takes time.
With verb tense the word connecting the verb is important. I compare to when I was learning Spanish and you learn verbs, in this case you have alot of them here as opposed to just one.
First sentence - The hamburger is the most -------- (to eat) food in the whole world.
You know what is is but going by reverse language I'm breaking it down to its verb form. How can the sentence be constructed that confirms the verb as past tense? Like the sentence says, most eaten. Break down each sentence in the first paragraph to its verb root and examine how it's used.
With verb tense the word connecting the verb is important. I compare to when I was learning Spanish and you learn verbs, in this case you have alot of them here as opposed to just one.
First sentence - The hamburger is the most -------- (to eat) food in the whole world.
You know what is is but going by reverse language I'm breaking it down to its verb form. How can the sentence be constructed that confirms the verb as past tense? Like the sentence says, most eaten. Break down each sentence in the first paragraph to its verb root and examine how it's used.
By The Frankman Go To PostOk… I'm at work so forgive me if this takes time.Regarding the first sentence, as far as I can tell, that is already an active voice, no?
With verb tense the word connecting the verb is important. I compare to when I was learning Spanish and you learn verbs, in this case you have alot of them here as opposed to just one.
First sentence - The hamburger is the most ——– (to eat) food in the whole world.
You know what is is but going by reverse language I'm breaking it down to its verb form. How can the sentence be constructed that confirms the verb as past tense? Like the sentence says, most eaten. Break down each sentence in the first paragraph to its verb root and examine how it's used.
Thanks for helping, means alot.
By Requiem Go To PostRegarding the first sentence, as far as I can tell, that is already an active voice, no?Yes. Since 'most' is the word before your verb you have "eaten" that makes sense (most ate would be incorrect)
Thanks for helping, means alot.
Moving onto the second sentence then ['The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American called Louis Lassen'] just at first glance, this isn't an active voice (I think) unlike the first sentence, but the problem I have is that it reads fine to me? The first sentence is in present tense while this one appears to be in past tense. Would 'An American Louis Lassen made and sold the first hamburgers in Connecticut in 1895' be correct?
So, seeing that it asks us to rewrite full sentences, I went mad with it:
The first hamburgers were made in 1985. Louis Lanssen called them hamburgers, because he was given the recipe by sailors. Hamburgers became his favourite meal. Their popularity grew even more when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food. Dick and Mac MacDonald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant. 25,000 MacDonald's restaurants have been opened worldwide. More than 35 million hamburgers are eaten everyday.
Yay or nay?
The first hamburgers were made in 1985. Louis Lanssen called them hamburgers, because he was given the recipe by sailors. Hamburgers became his favourite meal. Their popularity grew even more when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food. Dick and Mac MacDonald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant. 25,000 MacDonald's restaurants have been opened worldwide. More than 35 million hamburgers are eaten everyday.
Yay or nay?
Just spitballing it here, underlined is passive:
The hamburger is the most eaten food in the whole world.
The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American called Louis Lassen .
Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hambourg in Germany.
Hamburgers became a favourite meal in America in the early part of the twentieth century.
Their popularity grew even more after the second world war, when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food to family meals.
In 1948 two brothers Dick and Mac Donald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
Since then over 25,000 Mcdonald's restaurants have been opened worldwide and now 35 million MacDonald's hamburgers are eaten every day in 115 countries from India to the Artic Circle.
It's like rodeo said, the action vs. what is being acted on. Also here's a nice comparison between Active and Passive voice and turning sentences to each. <- I'd read this thoroughly if you're having trouble turning them each way.
The hamburger is the most eaten food in the whole world.
The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American called Louis Lassen .
Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hambourg in Germany.
Hamburgers became a favourite meal in America in the early part of the twentieth century.
Their popularity grew even more after the second world war, when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food to family meals.
In 1948 two brothers Dick and Mac Donald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
Since then over 25,000 Mcdonald's restaurants have been opened worldwide and now 35 million MacDonald's hamburgers are eaten every day in 115 countries from India to the Artic Circle.
It's like rodeo said, the action vs. what is being acted on. Also here's a nice comparison between Active and Passive voice and turning sentences to each. <- I'd read this thoroughly if you're having trouble turning them each way.
By Requiem Go To PostSo, huh, first post here. Please be gentle :) Not sure if this is the right place/allowed to post this.
So I've got some English homework that I need to finish, and I'm sorta stuck at these 2 tasks:
Task 1:
The following story is written in passive voice. Rewrite the sentences into active voice, where possible.
Example:
He is being deceived by his own friends.
His own friends are deceiving him.
STORY OF THE HAMBURGER
The hamburger is the most eaten food in the whole world. The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American called Louis Lassen. Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hambourg in Germany.
Hamburgers became a favourite meal in America in the early part of the twentieth century. Their popularity grew even more after the second world war, when they were bought in large quantities by teenagers who preferred fast food to family meals. In 1948 two brothers Dick and Mac Donald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
Since then over 25,000 Mcdonald's restaurants have been opened worldwide and now 35 million MacDonald's hamburgers are eaten every day in 115 countries from India to the Artic Circle.
Please rewrite full sentences.
Sounds pretty simple, right? But I can't seem to wrap my head around the whole active and passive voices. I'll post the second task if I ever get my head around this, so if you have any advice or tips for me, please share.
Flesh, the Lacanian real, mirrored in the imaginary of the hamburger, consumed by the voracious masses in collective yearning for return to the wholeness of being of the infant. A death drive whose traumatic recapitulations attempt to spiral the emergent macrosociological psyche-form back through the horrors of modernity: bite by bite, regressing to the Eden of the precapitalist culturewomb of Karatanian nation-as-not-state. Yet the symbolic order, the determinant logos of capital which at once orders being yet incurs in it a vacuum of meaning in its crossmodal decoherence of the object/subject being, blinded at the level of intrapsychic form to the ontological truth-(in/as)-erasure of Derridean differance. Thus does the culture-gulf sundered by colonialist imperialism force upon the Indian the consumption of their own sublime locus of ideology.
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Oh shit. I thought the assignment said to translate it into postmodernism. My bad.
So decided to just take it sentence by sentence, the second sentence went from this: The first hamburgers were made and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American called Louis Lassen. To this: An American called Louis Larssen made and sold the first hamburgers in Connecticut in 1985.
Which I'm pleased with honestly, so now ive got to change this sentence: Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hambourg in Germany.
But I've been working for a while and haven't spent as much time on it as I'd like :(
Which I'm pleased with honestly, so now ive got to change this sentence: Louis called them hamburgers because he was given the recipe by sailors from Hambourg in Germany.
But I've been working for a while and haven't spent as much time on it as I'd like :(
SO I think I did it:
An American called Louis Larssen made and sold the first hamburgers in Connecticut in 1985. Louis called them hamburgers when sailors from Habourg in Germany gave him the recipe. Hamburgers became a favourite meal in America in the early part of the twentieth century. Their popularity grew even more after the second world war, when teenagers who preferred fast food over family meals bought them in large quantities. In 1948 two brothers Dick and Mac Donald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Since then over 25,000 Mcdonald's restaurants have opened worldwide, with 35 million hamburgers being eaten everyday in 115 countries from India to the Artic Circle.
Would be extremely thankful if anyone could give me some feedback on my finished work, hope it isn't wrong.
An American called Louis Larssen made and sold the first hamburgers in Connecticut in 1985. Louis called them hamburgers when sailors from Habourg in Germany gave him the recipe. Hamburgers became a favourite meal in America in the early part of the twentieth century. Their popularity grew even more after the second world war, when teenagers who preferred fast food over family meals bought them in large quantities. In 1948 two brothers Dick and Mac Donald opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Since then over 25,000 Mcdonald's restaurants have opened worldwide, with 35 million hamburgers being eaten everyday in 115 countries from India to the Artic Circle.
Would be extremely thankful if anyone could give me some feedback on my finished work, hope it isn't wrong.
The very root of the construction of a passive voice sentence needs the be verb + the past participle (eat-ate-eaten the last guy is the past participle) a classic passive voices would be
I was born in August.
The Olympics will be held in Tokyo.
The hamburger was made by an American named Louis Larrsen.
Anything else is not a passive voice sentence
I was born in August.
The Olympics will be held in Tokyo.
The hamburger was made by an American named Louis Larrsen.
Anything else is not a passive voice sentence